[U-Boot] twister: usb host support

Jeroen Hofstee jeroen at myspectrum.nl
Wed Jul 10 18:04:04 CEST 2013


Hello Stefano / Tapani,

On 07/10/2013 04:27 PM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 09/07/2013 21:46, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
>> I cannot find any document mentioning gpio_25 though.
>> Any reason for this usage?
> That is right. There is no written documentation by Technexion about
> this pin. I have added in CC Tapani, maybe he can tell us something more.
> The GPIO is used internally on the TAM3517 SOM, and we have no
> schematics about it. We have to guess about its usage.

Yes, and some clarification of the pin 35 would be
appreciated as well, since it is marked as ball X, I guess
it is controlled by hardware and the hub cannot be reset
from software, but that is just guessing...

> The reason to have it is that the sources for the kernel provided by
> Technexion (an ancient 2.6.32 Version) set this pin to reset the EHCI.
> As I said, there is no further documentation and rather we can only make
> some supposition. The usage in U-Boot then reflects the usage made by
> Technexion.
>

Fyi my linux copy (3.7) with this gpio set as the phy_reset is also
unable to properly reset it and times out. The usb is working
though, also without a proper reset..

>> p.s.
>> I found by sheer accidence that the usb is behaving
>> completely normal (after the patch) on rev B1. It is
>> broken on rev B without the patch and working buggy
>> with it. On rev B1 + patch the USB to SATA converter
>> is discovered as well, which I have never seen before.
>>
> I can confirm issues with version B of the TAM3517-SOM. I am testing a
> B1 SOM with a B twister. I do not know the details about changelog
> between B and B1 version of the SOM, but I got both USB and Ethernet
> problems with TAM3517-B. The same image runs without the same problems
> on a B1.

ok, good to know.

> There is also this pending patch by Michael:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/250290/
>
> It is applied to u-boot-ti, not yet to mainline.
>

on top of usb master this patch leads to:
USB0:    ULPI: ulpi_reset: failed writing reset bit
ULPI:    ulpi_reset: failed writing reset bit

It does always find the stick though and never the SATA converter.

without the gpio_25 reset, the second error goes away and
the SATA is back.

>
> @@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ int board_init(void)
>       enable_gpmc_cs_config(gpmc_XR16L2751, &gpmc_cfg->cs[3],
>           XR16L2751_UART2_BASE, GPMC_SIZE_16M);
>
> -    gpio_request(CONFIG_OMAP_EHCI_PHY1_RESET_GPIO, "USB_PHY1_RESET");
> -    gpio_direction_output(CONFIG_OMAP_EHCI_PHY1_RESET_GPIO, 1);
> -
> See my concerns above. Do not reset the hub in the kernel ?

I don't get the last part, but feedback from Technexion is
needed first to remove all the guess, maybe etc. If it has a
valid function, not setting it's value might not be such a
good idea...

Regards,
Jeroen



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